Vermouth has a long history of being made far from where its botanicals grow. Epopira turns that logic around. The base wine is Silos — Lasorte Cuadra's own Valle d'Itria white, made from indigenous Puglian varieties including Verdeca, Bianco d'Alessano, Minutolo, and Maresco — which travels north to Antica Distilleria Quaglia in Piedmont, one of Italy's most respected historic distilleries, where it is married with a proprietary blend of 23 individual small-batch botanical infusions. At 140 g/L of residual sugar, the same botanical blend — thyme, bay leaf, chamomile, rosemary, and Valle d'Itria saffron — expresses itself in a richer, more generous register, the saffron and chamomile more pronounced, the finish longer and more enveloping. As compelling on its own over ice as it is at the heart of a Negroni or Manhattan. The bottle, adorned with artist Vanda Focanti's portrait of the Physician Saints Cosmas and Damian, is as considered as everything inside it. 1,200 bottles made.